Moreover, if we persist in stating that we are the ones who make our
decisions, then we would have to begin to explain, to discern, to
distinguish, who it is in us who made the decision and who subsequently
carried it out, immpossible operations by anyone's standards.
Strictly speaking we do not make decisions, decisions make us. The
proof can be found in the fact that, though life leads us to carry out
the most diverse actions one after the other, we do not prelude each
one with a period of reflection, evaluation and calculation, and
only then declare ourselves able to decide if we will go out to lunch or
buy a newspaper or look for the uknown woman.
José Saramago. All the Names c 1997. (translated from
the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa) San Diego: Harcourt, Inc.,
1999. p.29.